,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. |
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world |
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. |
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. |
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. |
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. |
I just think this is so sad. That is all. |
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. |
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. |
It was 20 below zero, but it was a dry cold. It was not too bad. |
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time. |
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences. |
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. |
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible. |
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. |